Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,

offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Baccliorate, Masters, and Doctoral Levels,

is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.

Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,

and eight new National Centers of Excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years.

To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.

Welcome to the science podcast for January 3, 2020. I'm Megan Cantwell. In this week's show,

Joel Goldberg talks to newswriters from science about exciting areas

of research and policy to look out for in the upcoming year.

And I speak with Beatrice Pinto-Consalves about carnivorous plant traps, how they formed, and what

that could tell us about their evolutionary history.

In this segment, we'll turn to the Areas to Watch for 2020.

Here, writers from science forecast areas of policy and research likely to make the news this year.

They've culled the chaos and identified some of the top stories. I'm Joel Goldberg.

Now we have Ann Gibbons, contributing correspondent at science. For 2020, she's calling attention to a new method of examining the lives of people who live far in the past, say a million

years ago. The technique focuses on ancient proteins,

remnants of prehistoric life, which could fill in some of the blanks left over from DNA analysis

of archaeological finds. Hi, Ann. Hi, Joel. It sounds like we're talking about something like

fossil CSI, only by that thinking one wouldn't expect

DNA to be the most valuable molecules rather than proteins.

So why is it that proteins are so important to this kind of analysis being done on these

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